Have you ever come across corporate companies letting their employees dictate their own work time? No, right? You will be shocked that there are few companies letting their employees decide their work hours due to few reasons. The reasons are hilarious and here is the list of few companies.
1. Future Group (Traffic):
Future Group is a Mumbai-based retailer company at Vikhroli. It has traffic dynamics dictated work hours. Future Group allows its employees to come in between 8.30 am and 10.30 am and leave after eight hours of working. This decision of Flexi work hours had given the employees lot of relief from traffic.
2. Coca-Cola (Traffic):
Coca-Cola and Sapient have availed Flexi work hours which is very much helpful for its employees avoid rush-hour traffic. “We start 30 minutes early at 8:30 am and close by 5:15 pm in order to beat the peak traffic hours,” said Sameer Wadhawan, Vice President for Human Resources & Services at Coca-Cola.
3. Philips (No Parking):
Electronics firm Philips has got a problem of parking for its employee’s vehicles. So the company lets its employees who don’t get a parking place, go back and work from home. Hence, for employees, logging in from home is better and quicker than finding parking. Employees can choose to reach between 8 am and 1 pm.
“When we are aware of road diversions and blocks and advisories about traffic disruptions, employees have the freedom to work from home and head out once the traffic restrictions have eased,” a Philips official said.
4. Microsoft:
Microsoft, Hyderabad has a group of buses for point-to-point pickup and drop off employees and cabs for home pick up and drop after office hours.
5. SAP Labs:
SAP Labs Bangalore doesn’t monitor entry and exit timings of its employees, rather it gives freedom to employees to decide when to get to work and leave. It even allows its employees to work from home once a week. The frequency can also be increased by their reporting managers. The company’s motto is the final output and not how many hours an employee works.
6. Price Water House Coopers (PWC) India:
PricewaterhouseCoopers India decided to open its third office in Mumbai; it chose the city’s western suburb of Gurgaon. “At the end of the day, we want our employees to maintain a work-life balance. Otherwise, it will impact their productivity,” PwC India human capital leader Jagjit Singh said.
7. KPMG India:
KPMG India has an active working policy, which allows its employees to work from anywhere like client location or home, but the role should be executed virtually and productivity, performance, and timelines are not troubled.
8. AmEx South Asia (Car-Free Tuesday):
AmEx South Asia is asking its employees to make use of increased public transport facility on car-free Tuesdays. This reduction in the number of cars will also help reduce pollution.
9. Infosys:
Infosys has launched a campaign, “Ab Bus Karo,” in Pune to encourage its employees to take company buses to its development centre. Infosys is promoting options such as buses, cabs, and cycles for its more than 1.79 lakh employees.
10. Other Gurgaon Firms (Carpooling and Flexi-timings):
Bacardi, Ericsson, Samsung and Amway companies in Gurgaon have introduced Flexi working hours. Traffic in Gurgaon is a big challenge. Hence, these companies had arranged three work timing slots in a day.